The Laval entrepreneur has admitted he used a numbered company to supply fake invoices between 2004 and 2008 to a pair of companies — Simard-Beaudry and Construction Louisbourg — once run by Montreal construction magnate Tony Accurso.

"There were no services furnished for these invoices," said prosecutor François Lanthier.

The fake invoices, totalling about $2 million, allowed both companies to reduce revenues and lower federal taxes by at least $442,000.